The Extreme Staycation

Location: London, UK COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak Lockdown Following on from Thursday's blog, one thing I struggle to keep up with is the publications I subscribe to or am gifted second hand by friends.  My two biggies are The Stage newspaper and Empire Magazine. I really enjoy both, but because I read them pretty much cover to cover they take me ages to get through. I'm working on my back catalogue but particularly with The Stage, it's strikingly eerie reading the news section and what's going to be opening later this year, when so much has changed. I have occasionally looked at my pile and considered recycling the whole lot, but I know that there will be some great articles within them that I don't want to miss.  So I will plough on and one day, I might finish them.

Location: London, UK COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak Lockdown This is an excellent article by Tarek Iskander who is the artisitic director at Battersea Arts Centre. In it he talks about the performing arts world using this time to address the issues in theatre before we launch back in - what we had wasn't perfect and now we can change things: https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/opinion/the-arts-after-covid-19-lets-fix-the-things-that-werent-right-before I think it's a sound point that this is a moment in history that could be used to fix some problems and one that we could apply to many elements of our daily lives.  Where have our priorities changed?  What is essential to us now? For example: many people like to work from home or have the option to do so.  Before the lockdown I know of many friends who were denied this by their companies saying it wasn't possible, or just doesn't work for their company.  Well clearly, that's not the case.  It is po...